Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialStuart McDaniel @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“For four decades, the United States has run one of the most profitable trades in the world economy… import young people that the global labor market has underpriced—graduate students whose ability outruns their résumés—give them a place to prove themselves, and keep much of the upside” 03920
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 14/08/2026How we used a government-run visa lottery to measure the effect of foreign hiring on US firms and workers: Thank you to @aeajournals.bsky.social for highlighting my paper with @ethan-lewis.bsky.social —>aeaweb.orgWinning the visa lotteryEvidence from a US government lottery shows that restricting foreign low-skill workers shrinks businesses without creating jobs for Americans. 03211
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialSophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Got a weird one for you guys tonight www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comElon's fans erect 50-foot statue outside his company townA studio promising "art so epic it will raise the birthrate" gifted a huge bronze Prometheus to Musk's Starbase. 265711
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialDhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.socialwired.comICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir DatabaseDHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say. 12629601763
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialJared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Amazing work by @propublica.org and partners illustrating the lack of regulations around microschools in some states. www.propublica.org/article/prop... 9573150
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialZack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026He really shouldn't even be under consideration for 2028. 1333665
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialErnesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026On September 20, an ICE agent shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in Austin, TX. The bullet still remains lodged in Garcés Pérez's back, and he has yet to receive the necessary medical care and medications for his bullet wound. #immigration #ICE #WilberRafaelGarcesPerez #AustinTX 011
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We are paying CNN and MS NOW to run ads for Donald Trump right before the midterms. You and I are paying for them. And CNN and MS NOW are taking the cash while their hosts and guests say the scheme is illegal. That is the current state of corporate media in America. 30854591898
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026CEO compensation has increased 1,316% since 1978. And worker compensation? Just 28%. The system is rigged. We need to start taxing the rich so they pay their fair share. 14638581347
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialKelly Cosgrove @kellycosgrove.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I lived in Utah for 17 years & hold Cox in particular contempt. He felt it compassionate & kind to allow trans girls to play HS sports. He recognized they were not a threat & it was cruel to exclude kids. He changed to protect his political future. Mr. @jamestalarico.bsky.social should take note. 051
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialHellishchildren @hellishchildren.bsky.social · 01/10/2026March 20, 2026 As the lawyer, Seth Cohen, talked about licensing new nuclear reactor designs, he downplayed health and safety concerns. When staff brought up the topic of radiation exposure from nuclear test sites, Cohen said, “They are testing in Utah. I don’t know, like 70 people live there."propublica.orgDOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley Into America’s Nuclear Power RegulatorIn its rush to boost nuclear energy, the Trump administration is rapidly rewriting rules to ease regulations and provide financial breaks for industry. “The safety culture is under threat,” a former h... 052
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/10/2026Mr. Bacon is, as the kids would say, quite literally cooking with grease (laudatory) 1307
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026THERE IT IS: Group of January 6 riot defendants have filed each filed federal civil lawsuits in DC seeking taxpayer-funded compensatory and punitive damages for alleged violations of their righrs They claim they were "targeted..and punished" for "protected expressive" activity 28621101114
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialHellishchildren @hellishchildren.bsky.social · 01/10/2026September 30, 2026 Valar Atomics plans "Project Beehive" on over 9,000 acres of land held under the Bureau of Land Management in Utah. The facility would include data centers and some 456 small nuclear reactors, along with a facility to produce nuclear fuel and others for storing nuclear waste.npr.orgA startup wants to build a massive nuclear-powered data center on public land in UtahValar Atomics wants to place over 450 reactors on more than 9,500 acres in Utah to power a huge data center project. 195
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should. 101397243
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all. 443812901
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026reminder that we are talking about this 419555
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026it's evidently too much to ask the rw justices to consider the irreparable harm to individuals treated to such inhumanity. they are complicit in this criminality. shame on all six of them. and shame on us for having a system that allows this illegality. 12413133
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Link: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...supremecourt.gov 232048
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“I have no one. I have nothing.” #AbuseofPowerWatch 32712
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialPeter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I dislike "culture wars" because it suggests there are combatants attacking from both sides, instead of people attacking on one side and people just trying to live their lives on the other. 0103
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20752441429
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...donmoynihan.substack.comDOGE vs. Civic TechAs DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure 18800259
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialDave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Among the ICE abductions reported yesterday was a ~7:20 a.m. incident in Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood. Per video shared online, ICE agents surrounded a car with a child in it, smashed the window and took the man in the driver's seat, as the woman next to him cried and prayed. 0266149
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026One of the most depressing things you’ll read today—on how RFK Jr & Jay Bhattacharya dismantled the CDC & pushed the agency to spend time investigating kooky anti-vaxx anti-science theories It’s tragic: they took the world’s premier public health agency & zombified it; the impacts have been awful 49741
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We’ve been in a constitutional crisis since Jan. 20, 2025 and a blue wave in November won’t fix it if Trump can just ignore legislation passed by Congress.cbsnews.comTrump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegalPresident Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa... 711787475
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The NY Times has repeatedly used the phrase “to heel” in reference to Trump’s crackdown on universities, implicitly clarifying that Trump goal is to establish dominance. And what exactly constitutes this “woke” ideology in higher education? 20868181
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I thought NYT was the first to report this, but it’s was actually @chicago.suntimes.com. Kudos to @jonseidel.bsky.social, the reporter who broke the story. 14664177
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum. 362980916
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialAnil Dash @anildash.com · 25/09/2026Age verification is an egregious privacy violation, an inexcusable form of surveillance, and… it’s also voodoo bullshit that doesn’t work. It’s one of the reasons I’m proudest to support @eff.org, who have been leading the fight against the horrible practice for years: www.eff.org/issues/age-v...eff.orgAge Verification and Age Gating: Resource HubAge verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “ag... 5315129
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialkristinfo.bsky.social @kristinfo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Shut it down 112123
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026SCOOP: ICE is trying to ignore the appeals court decision striking down its third-country removal policy, using the thinnest of legal technicalities as a justification. It wants to expel a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic tomorrow. prospect.org/2026/09/23/i...prospect.orgICE Is Trying to Ignore Court’s Decision Striking Down Third-Country Removals - The American ProspectImmigration officials want to send a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic within hours, court filings show. 5345170
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026On my third-country removal tracker, I include any country to whose jurisdiction a migrant is transferred, even if they don’t even leave the airport. So for ex. I include Egypt, because ICE hands Russians over to Egyptian police, who then force them onto planes to Russia. 14412
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialMara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026sahanjournal.com/immigration/...sahanjournal.comSomali ICE detainees held at Guantanamo Bay for weeksThree Somali men, including two Minnesota men, describe weekslong detention, aggressive shackling, and constant surveillance at Guantanamo Bay. 162
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialMara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026St Paul neighbor likely on this flight 14715
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026ICE is removing detainees with final deportation orders from its online tracking system. This makes it nearly impossible for their lawyers and families to contact them, which could prevent them from using all their constitutionally protected legal options. Trump’s cruelty is endless.washingtonpost.comImmigrants with final deportation orders disappear from ICE detainee locatorThe change will make it harder for many families and attorneys to determine where an immigrant is being held after being 461065552
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 23/09/2026When I point out that Executive Orders apply only to federal agencies this is what I mean to prevent: over-compliance. 47921
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026On Sep 11 in Alamo, Texas, Luis Ochoa and another teen stopped to film ICE agents during a vehicle stop near a school. Agents pulled one from their car, struck him, used pepper spray, and detained them for 8 hrs even after they proved their citizenship, one ICE agent stating, 'I don’t give a damn.'krgv.comMother of teen detained in viral Alamo ICE arrest video deportedThe mother of a 17-year-old detained by ICE in a viral Alamo, Texas incident has been deported to Mexico, raising concerns among legal experts about potential retaliation for speaking out. 11318189
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026 10463215710085
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialChris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Big news from @ij.org: A federal judge in Alabama has just ordered ICE and CBP to stop warrantless raids of construction sites, to stop detaining people without individualized suspicion, and to stop detaining people who present valid ID. More to come shortly. 9412123
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialCorey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A free society cannot allow the government to disappear people in order to cutoff access to legal remedies. 6539223
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialtenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026prospect.org/2026/09/15/a...prospect.orgCongressional Democrats in Hysterics About Saving the World From AI - The American ProspectWhy panic when you could just use existing laws? 183
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty 3035901149
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is what a rigged economy looks like. 20380103299
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.statesman.comAttorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash deliveryA Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody. 25476663459
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Through the end of August 2026, the House was in session for roughly 383 hours total. That’s an average of about 48 hours per month. Their average monthly floor time is well below the 80-hour monthly threshold the same Congress imposed on Medicaid recipients. 468103944633
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026ICE removal flights have been at least temporarily halted after an appeals court ruling finding them illegal. But the Supreme Court has revived the flights twice using the shadow docket, and could do so again once the Trump administration appeals to them. @gillianbrockell.com reports.prospect.orgAppeals Court Smacks Down Trump’s Third-Country Removal Policy - The American ProspectTens of thousands of people have been subjected to the cruel policy, but the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” could soon bring it back. 312550
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio. 16637121037
Reposted by @doromilne.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026Ahmed Soliman has been missing for six days. ICE says it is “not responsible” for this, even though they forcibly expelled him to an authoritarian country he’d never even been to. Please take the time today to follow this link to contact your lawmakers, especially Arizonans! findahmedsoliman.orgfindahmedsoliman.orgHelp find Ahmed Soliman — Civic Action ToolReview a draft, open it in Gmail, Outlook, or your mail app, and send it yourself. No sign-in, no data collected. 3441249